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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE PARMVILLE, VIRGINIA VOL.

MAY,

Vli

NO. 4

1946

f

CONTENTS Dr. Jarman

Co-operation Tribute to Dr.

Jarman

High Shoes

Mrs. Carrie Hunter Willis

4

Mrs. Carrie Hunter Willis

5

From Here On

Elizabeth R. Burger

7

Carolyn Bobbitt

8

Eubank Treakle

9

Looking Ahead Virginia

Backward Glances

A

Betty Deuel Cock 12

Sketch of Our College Magazines

Naomi Piercy

The Spy Kit Gallops I

On

19

Anne Willis

22

Must Return

POETRY

15

Betty Deuel Cock

:

Dr. J. L. Jarman,

Morning

Our President

Night

BOOK REVIEWS

Carolyn Bobbitt

8

Coleman

10

Anne Motley

21

Evelyn Hair

18

Naomi Piercy

18

iRis

Is Best

:

Down a Crooked Lane The James, From Iron Gate to the Sea

Porter: Straight Niles:

Grace Loyd 14

College Polish

THE STAFF Editor Business

Margaret Wilson

Manager Evelyn Hair,

Literary Editors

Barbara Lee Myers

Anne Charlton,

Art Editors Virginia Bland, Sue Davis.

Louise Rives.

Grace Loyd

College Polish

Short Story Editors Jean Cake.

Anne Willis.

Essay Editcyrs

Ann Motley,

Virginia Tindall.

Poetry Editors Betty Spindler, Hogge.

Book Reviews

Mary Agnes Millner, Doris

Brooks,

Catherine

Barbara Graham

Lucile Upshur, Charlotte West, Rachel Brugh, Nancy Adams, Andrea Garrison.

Business Assistants Hilda Bennett, Barbara Kellam, Betty Jefferson, Mary Lou Bagley, Katie Lawrence.

Typists

ROARrv OP op CONTRIBUTORS POTsm?mTTTnT?^ BOARD Chairman Martha Wells, Betty Townsend, Jean Wall.

Mary Rattray LEVi^is

Shank,

Joyce

Dr. Joseph Leonard Jarman

NE

words

of the most important

English language, to me, Co-operation

is

word

the one

I

is

in the

co-operation.

have used time

after time to emphasize the importance of people's

working together.

There are many other desirable qualities a person should develop

—

initiative,

tolerance, to mention a few.

tory

life,

independence,

But for

a satisfac-

these qualities have to be colored with

the results of co-operation.

Co-operation might be said to

mark

the dif-

ference between "I" and "We". If "I" do so and so

—that's

fine.

But

if

much more worthwhile

"We"

succeed, think

that sounds

—and

how

is.

If

each of us contributes his part to an effort, the result should be something that

is

worthwhile

to all of us.

-74rLJt^-'«'<^'--*-»»xv

Tribute to Dr. Jarman Mrs. Carrie Hunter Willis Class of 1911

rliflff

^^^i

^' J^^"^^^'s long record is proof of his excellent executive and admin-

His fame as an educator The deep affection of "his girls" reflects the warm sympathy and understanding which he has given them so freely His whole life has been devoted and dedicated to the education of young women to istrative qualities.

is

secure.

—

Jarman

and he has an appreciation of it. He loves beauty; and at Longwood, as at the college, he has provided beauty for all to enjoy. He has given the students the opportunity to know and to appreciate the beauties of landscaped lawns and architecture.

Dr.

it."

done

loves music,

his best to give his girls

their welfare during their college years

and to

instilling

worthy ideals and

princi-

ples of right-living into their hearts and

minds.

"Work

love

is

made

visible,"

says the

Today at Farmville we see Dr. Jarman's work and love made visible in prophet.

each white building, in

column, in each ivy-covered each green shrub, and in the

shining eyes of his girls.

And now, ory's ear Dr.

I

mem—"My girls"

hear again through

Jarman saying

pronouncing it "guirls" in a way no one can imitate. I hear again his voice, rich with faith and deep with understanding, as he counseled us. I hear again his chuckle as he lighted his match and his cigar; again some girl's world was made right her problem, however big or small, was solved, and she walked away with a lighter

—

heart.

As long as there is a State Teachers College in Farmville, to thousands of his students in all walks of life, he will remain their president, their counselor and friend.

The love of his girls will grow with the years, because he gave them the true values of life because he taught them by precept

—

and by example, of service to others. He taught them to be loyal and courageous, whatever the task.

Thirty years have passed since Dr. Jarthese words which I copied as a student, in a worn notebook

—

man spoke

"Open your eyes and

see

beauty

with —everywhere. See open mind —with a big heart and a big everything

life

in

an

soul.

That

is

a

way

to live a big

happy

life!"

Then surely Dr. Jarman must be happy, knowing he has not only helped his girls during their college days, but also during

Carlyle said, "See deep enough and you see

musically, the heart of nature being

everywhere music

—

if

you can only reach

their

more mature

years.

He

will continue

to live on in the hearts of those

who have

had the privilege of knowing him.

mien sn€iEs Mrs. Carrie Hunter Willis

[ATE one

was a mild epiBut one girl Dr. Jarman quiet-

fall there

demic of some kind.

ill from it. walked through the halls and to the Infirmary several times during the day and

was seriously ly

night. When the crisis came, he never left the building. Haggard, pale, and shaken by

the death of one of his girls, he appeared at

Chapel as usual.

None

of the girls ever suspected that

Death had claimed one of them.

Imagine their surprise when Dr. Jarman told them, that Friday morning that each one of them would be excused from classes that afternoon in order to buy high-top shoes. "And," he insisted, after waiting a minute for the protest from the girls, "you will have all day tomorrow, Saturday, to get them. But on Monday morning every girl must have high-top shoes not only have them, but have them ON her feet. Your health is the most important thing. Your parents have entrusted your welfare to my care, and there will be no excuse for the girl who does not have them. And in case you haven't the money to pay for them, charge them to me until you hear from home."

—

—

—

On Sunday

the girls limped to church.

The

along High Street were cut Those high-top shoes HURT

strolls

short.

On Monday morning the girls filed into Dr. Jarman asked them to raise their hands if they had bought their new high-top shoes. Every hand went up. And he smiled his approval. A member of the Chapel.

faculty leaned over and whispered to him.

Dr. Jarman's face grew serious. He then

asked "Will every girl who please raise her hand?"

is

wearing them,

About a third of the girl's hands went up, while the others looked down. Dr. Jarman's voice was cold as he spoke:

"Tomorrow, young ladies, you will march down the aisles, then up the steps

my right, and across the stage. If must inspect each girl's high-top shoes,

there to I

I will have to cut Chapel exercises short in order to do so."

The next morning, we marched as he us, across the stage.

That was enough. We wore the hated high-top shoes until spring. Dr. Jarman meant what he had told

said!

Portrait of a Senior

From Here On Elizabeth R. Burger

'OUR thoughts

are directed towards

the future as this message goes to you, 'Seniors of 1946. From here on, from these college doors the task is yours. As

—

you face life, you will be exposed to a world which may at times seem chaotic and in-

—

comprehensible thwarting, if not destroyyour immediate plans. However, the perseverance and wise judgement which you show f^om day to day will, by the law of averages, give you a wanning chance.

Your future depends upon you! ing,

You are facing the future with greate^:assurance and confidence because you have experienced a college education. What are your advantages as an educated person?

You use your power of thinking clearly in determining that which is true. You exhibit broad-mindedness and tolerance and an ability not to resent that which seems foreign to your way of life. You are prepared to adapt yourselves to a world of eternal change, not to a static complacent one. You possess an app'^eciation of literature and the arts, and you understand the use of books as a tool. You recognize the spiritual as well as the material side of life. You are able to develop your own principles and to set your own values as a guide to your associations in life. You realize that your education is not complete. You feel your part in the college community as well as in international responsibility.

You know

that

freedom, in reality, is established, not lost, by adherence to the rules and conventions of society. You understand and utilize the

approach to the solutions of you'* You are prepared to live a happy and full and satisfying life because as educated people your basis of recognizing what is fundamental is sound. intelligent

problems.

What lies ahead for you? Many are prone to wave the flag of fear for the fu-

ture. This fear is a result of lack of understanding and faith. And such fear is a ghost that inhibits your thinking, damages your personality, and forces you to harbor painful uncertainty. Truth allays this fear, and so you must seek that truth which gives understanding and faith in the future. In spite of the fact that the end of war has left many dazed, you should strive today to see one thing clearly that a mutual understanding of all people is the only thing that wall save any one of them.

—

Your mastery

of the future

rooted in one factor

is

deeply

—your attitude toward

what happens to you. You may plan your future, and your own potentialities will determine in a great way the outcome. But you cannot escape the tyranny of time and events unless you face them heroically. And this lies within you. Your true happiness depends upon your success in dominating what comes and in taking from it, all that can help to give you peace and security. But your happiness cannot be isolated from the happiness of others; it is bound with service to

mankind.

You tu^n

to beauty, to nature, to God, to friends you have known, and you find something that gives you faith, renewed courage

— something that enables you to carry on the world that

in

before you. You live and work, not because of any incentive of your own making, but because of the inspiration of those you have learned to admire and reis

have observed you at work and have seen you wisely and impartially choose your own leaders I have seen you bow gracefully to the wishes of the majority; I have seen you subordinate yourselves to give others the opportunity to exercise their ability. I have looked on your sane interpretations of the joys and sorrows of spect.

play.

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Continued an Page 10

LOOKING AHEAD Carolyn Bobbitt

llllfN 1902, when Dr. Jarman first came our president, he began

be-

the

use and application of two of his favorite and "lady-like." "co-operation" words,

Many people wrote about this throughout the years, and these two words became a living part of each of Dr. Jarman's "girls."

In 1946 "co-operation" and "lady-like" are still his favorite words, and, as of old, he says to us, "As long as you remember that you are ladies and act accordingly, you need no other rule by which to govern your conduct." The value of co-operating of working together in every way possible for every worthy cause, he reiterates to us

again and again.

As we seniors go into our special fields of work next year, no matter what those fields may be, we will hold Dr. Jarman and those two words fast within our hearts as guidelights. In our mind's eye, we shall see him on the platform in the auditorium, and we shall hear his voice, low and thoughtful,

say:

"And now

abideth

faith,

hope,

and

charity."

Faith. Hope! Charity! No senior of 1946 is so dull as not to realize that to catch the significance of these words is to gain that inner strength which Dr. Jarman believes four years at S. T. C. can give us.

Many teachers and administrators have used Dr. Jarman as a yardstick, asking themselves what would Dr. Jarman do were

Dr.

J. L.

he faced with a similar problem or in a situation such as they, and I am sure that many of us will be doing just that same thing in the coming years.

Dr. Jarman's chief purpose has always been to serve the state. He has constantly kept big ideas before him, and he has tried to instill these into each of us here the ideas of keeping "big" things before us of being the best of whatever we are, wherever we are.

It is true that Dr. Jarman has not recorded many of his thoughts and ideas in writing, but he has recorded them in the minds and hearts of "his girls."

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As the Reformation is the lengthened shadow of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, and Abolition of Clarkson, so Farmville is the lengthened shadow of Dr. Jarman.

We, the seniors of 1946, are deeply indebted to Dr. Jarman for all that he has done for the state, the community, and the college, but most of all, for us. He has

meant much to us in the past, and will mean more to us in the future, after we have left S. T. C. for a

world of uncertainty, doubt,

disappointment, confusion, sorrow, happiness, gaiety, and gladness, all of which we are bound to stumble upon in our walk of life.

Truly,

"He was I

a

man

shall not look

;

take him for

upon

Jarman, Our President Carolyn Bobbitt

Now

Have

faith, hope, and love For those along your way;

for his dear sake

Let his

own maxim

ring

Give a cheery smile To all you meet today.

"Be the best you can Whate'er the future bring.

"Co-operate, be a lady In all that you chance to do, 'Give to the world the best you have,

And

the best will

come back

to you

all in all,

his like again.'"

Baeki^ard Glances Virginia

S

we pause amidst our

Eubank Treakle

activities to

pay tribute to our president, Dr. Jarman, we take a backward

Joseph

L.

glance at our college. In the Focus, the foie'^unner of the Colonnade, one writer in 1912 described the growth of Farmville under the first ten years of Dr. Jarman's administration with these words: "Each year the growth of the student body has been so great that, like the chambered nautilus, the school soon outgrew its shell and new chambers had to be built to meet the growing needs." Dr. Jarman's record is unique and his influence powerful. It is unique in that during his forty-four years as president of this institution not once did the State Legislature turn down his recommendations it is powerful in that under his ;

leadership, the atmosphere of friendliness

and scholarship has kept pace with the physical growth of the college. During these forty-four years, the East and West wings and the Middle East Wing were planned and constructed. The training school, the infirma'^y, the dining hall,

Cunningham

hall.

Annex, the laundry, the power plant, the library, and Longwood are, to a large extent, the result of his careful planning. Also in the words of a former student, "Student Building is a monument to the energy of Doctor Jarman as well as to the service and lasting devotion of the friends and alumnae of the college."

honoring Dr. Jarman. we are just echoing what has been said by numbers before us. In 1912 a former president of the Alumnae Association wrote, "With the chiming of the midnight bells, ringing out the old year, ringing in the new, has closed one decade of work and service for our state by Dr. J. L, Jarman. Wellearned indeed is the measure of praise accorded him at this time by his co-workers of faculty and students, and not least

Todaj^

in

among those proud to do him honor are the alumnae, who hasten to extend him our congratulations and to pledge a continuance of our loyalty in the future."

During ville,

his

culcate in the girls"

forty-four years at

Jarman has endeavored

Dr.

to

in-

minds and hearts of "his

highest

the

Some have

Farm-

Christian

called our college

principles.

"A

Christian home-like atmosphere they have attributed to the fact that D^. Jarman has been its head for two-

Home." This

Christian,

thirds of

its existence. All in all, the college a reflection of the high ideals and principles for which he stands. Dr. Francis Butler Simkins, in his publication. Who's is

Who in Farmville Portraits, said of Dr. Jarman's influence on the college, "He has had so much to do with its development, that in an intimate and direct sense, its character

a reflection of his character

is

and personality. He has fostered its growth from a modest normal school housing three hundred students into a large college of almost nine hundred students, living in a group of school buildings in the best Virginia taste.

Without sacrificing the democratic purpose of preparing young women at small cost to serve the Virginia schools,

he has fostered an atmosphere of gentility and good breeding usually associated with the aristocratic tradition of the old commonwealth. He has kept Farmville devoted to the task of training teachers while other institutions founded for the same purpose

have been diverted into other educational fields."

As seniors of 1946, most of us are looking into the future just a bit to plan what we

shall do

when we go out from

this col-

lege to face independently the realities and uncertainties which confront us. realize

We

that

we

are expected to hold high the torch of Farmville and to keep the light of learn-

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THE COLONNADE "Our school

ing bright. What we as students are today, we owe largely to our close association with Dr. Jarman as our president, adviser,

and

Upon

"And

nothing new to say about one who is as widely knowTi and loved as he, for people have been writing about him for years. More than three decades have passed since a student, Maria A. Bristow, now Mrs. T. J. Starke of Richmond, wrote these stanzas in praise of Doctor Jarman.

We

is

vessel great

and

skies are fair

bright,

blustery.

we're the passengers full of hope,

And you

the pilot true.

never have a fear for

life

You'U steer our good ship through.

"They've put our helm in your strong hands,

Your seamanship you've shown;

We know

you'll guide us safely on,

Through

seas, to worlds

unknown."

Students even earlier than three decades ago caught the meaning of Farmville and of D^'. Jarman.

Throughout the years this spirit has lived on. We, the students of 1946, wholeheartedly echo the spirit of the author of this poem and join with her, other alumnae, and friends in paying tribute to Dr. Joseph L. Jarman who will become President Emeritus on July 1, 1946.

"Doctor Jarm?.n, we greet you here In real appreciation, In love, esteem, in gratitude

For your administration.

you who work and strive with You know our many trials; 'Tis you who join our merriment With best of friendly smiles.

some

Sometimes they're

highest and the best.

" 'Tis

as

Sometimes the

His influence, above all others, has made our Alma Mater stand for the friend.

There

is

a vast, wide sea;

us,

Mornmg Iris

Is

Best

Coleman

Honorable mention in poetry contest.

I

like the

morning best

When day And

begins anew.

the slowly rising sun Makes sparkles of the dew.

I like

the birds' twitter.

The friendly sounds

of day.

When soft clouds curtain the And drive despair away.

From Here On

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Continued from Page

during the long depressing war years. have wo^^ked with many of you of unusual ability and untiring effort, who did your

sky

7

have faith in the future be-

life

well done.

I

cause such as you a^e a part of

From

part so well that others were influenced through it to such a degree that they too grasped the spiritual elevation of a task

I

here on. Seniors of 1945,

future be bright and success be yours.

10

it.

may

may your

a full measure of

The Library Tower and Clock

11

A

Sketch of

O

to Dr. Jarman, the first magazines came into school of our being when a group of the girls

corded for posterity in these small, bound volumes.

In appearance, there is a large differ-

our president for advice and permission concerning such a venture.

There had been "Annuals", of course, but these girls wanted a school magazine wherein could be printed the literary

ence. The Guidon was a smaller, blue-jacketed booklet, printed by the Smith Brothers Printers at Pulaski, Virginia. Quite a con-

ACCORDING

went

to

attempts Dr.

of

more

the

creative

from our large, glossy magazine of today. It sold, at first (1905) for a dollar a year, or fifteen cents per single copy, but in 1908 the yearly subscription price had gone trast

students.

and backed Cunsocieties,

Jarman gave

his consent,

down

by the three Literary ningham, Argus, and Athenian, the "Guidon" came into existence. The very first issue, which went to press in February, 1905, had the following editorial message from the first co-editors, Zaidee Smith and Lucy

Manson: "It is with fear and trembling that the editors present their first number of the Guidon to the public, for they realize fully

.

.

.

We

strive to

make

To succeed

it

came the Focus, either late Of the same size and

white jacket with black lettering depicting its name and date. But her contents grew in variety and interest, covering every subject from "The Hermit's Cave" to an editorial debate with the Randolph-M-acon boys on the use of "simplified spelling" in a girls' college. Soul of the school was the Focus; but in 1922 it was converted into the weekly newspaper which we know so well as the Rotunda. We find it interesting to note that the name of the Focus is now carried on by the school paper of Farmville High.

In content, the first magazine differed There but slightly from our Colonnade. were short stories, poems, articles and edi-

There were alumnae notes, and a Listed in the very first table

find titles like "Ante-Bellum "Christmas 'fo' de War", Class poem of 1904, and "The Importance of SelfControl." Varied and interesting, to say the least. In later editions we find "Some Day", "The Peregrinations of Polly", and "In and About School", all going together to build up the vital statistics which have been reof contents

it

on its cover, for about four years. In 1914 it changed from the Farmville printers' office back to the Smith Brothers in Pulaski, and with this change came also a change in appearance. Now the Focus wore a modest

And on the fly-leaf, or title-page, of each issue is the Shakespearean quotation, "I stay but for my Guidon".

joke-section.

the price of a single

approximate content of the Guidon, the Focus was tan in color with deep brown lettering, and boasted a cut of the Rotunda

worthy of its name .... to make it our Guidon, and the Guidon of our school."

torials.

;

in 1910 or early 1911.

the trust imposed in them, and the responsibility of their undertaking as well as their inexperience.

to fifty cents

copy remaining the same.

The Guidon failed in 1910. Why, we cannot say, but fail it did, and the remains, figuratively speaking, were tossed into the scrap-bag on top of the unsuccessful little Greeting which had seen light possibly twice, back in the 1890's.

we

Days",

In 1929, the

12

Cunningham and Ruffner

allege

Magazines

Literary Societies founded The Voice. This was an impressive little pamphlet, with its silhouetted cut of Joanne of Arc astride her horse,weilding her sword on the cover. But

"The only way

The Farmville Quarterly Review, VolOne, Number One appeared in May, 1936, and was published three times a year

tion captioned

at the price of twenty-five cent per copy.

"Here

The Contributors included Miss Nancy Byrd Turner, author, poet, and lecturer;

for fi-

it

"The Columns":

is

.

.

.

the first issue of the

"Rendered with a new size, a new name, and new illustrations.

"All capable hands are needed for the upkeep!"

The "capable hands" co-operated. Today the Colonnade stands as much a part of S. T. C. as the white-columned cloisters for which it was named. Respected, eagerly awaited, beloved by all, it fulfills more than

several

un-interesting looking in general.

By however, the contents were broad

enough to include

articles on foreign afon subjects like birth control, and reviews of current play successes, such as "Life With Father". The titles in the table of contents became more the changing vernacular of the college girl, and we find fairs,

like

is

can't

"Built on the foundations of the FarmQuarterly Review.

now,

titles

I

ville

alumnae, and, of course, the students who were enough interested to write for the magazine. In appearance it was of the same stocky. Readers' Digest type, and fair-

among them

work

Colonnade.

Dr. Francis B. Simpkins, of the college faculty; Thomas Lomax Hunter, of the staff

ly

to

"and

lic the first issue of \he Colonnade, with the follovdng statement in her editorial sec-

ume

Richmond Times-Dispatch;

it

nance it unless every single girl gets a copy.

You go ahead with your plans, provide for every student to have a copy of each issue, and I'll back it up with the campus fund."

And this he did. In December, 1938 Ann Dugger, editor, presented to a waiting pub-

despite the hope of the editors to make the Voice "truly the voice of our colleg-e", it, too, appeared in print two or three times, and died out for reasons of its own.

of the

I see for to finance it," he said,

me

its first staff

job which

it

ever dared set out to

lizing college life

dream

do

:

it could, the that of immorta-

and college

living.

Just as Dr. Jarman is the soul of the student body, these magazines, too, are and have been the love of the students who have struggled to put them out. Long hours in

"Mike", "Uncute",

"Panorama", and "Doloppy".

The Quarterly Review Was indeed a success .... with one exception. The financial side collapsed, as had invariably been the case before, and the Quarterly Review faced a complete downfall unless something was done. So, as in all times of stress, a committee went again ... to Dr. Jarman After analyzing the situation and realizing that the main trouble lay in the fact that none of the magazines had paid finan-

the Herald office; longer hours of proofplanning layouts; making last-

reading;

minute changes praying for cuts to return time ... all these and far more go into the make-up of any one of them. Sometimes it seems as if the whole could be tossed for salvage into the Scrap-bag of Literature, ;

in

but more often, each ingle issue is dear to the hearts of those who have spent their time upon it.

cially, Dr. Jarman explained the circumstances to the waiting committee.

Under the bright jackets Continued on Page 14

13

of the Colon-

College Polish Grace Loyd

He: "May I kiss your hand," She: "What's the matter, Is

"Smile that way again." pled sweetly.

"Just as I thought.

You

my mouth

He: You've a faculty for making She: No, just a student body.

dirty?'

His face was flushed, but his broad shoulders saved him. ^The Spectator.

She blushed and dim-

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look like a chipmonk."

"Would you "Glad

patient in the insane asylum was trying to convince an attendant that he was Napoleon. "But who told you that you were Napoleon?" inquired the attendant. "God did," replied the inmate. "I

A

came a

did not,"

voice

to.

like to see a

What

model home?"

times does she quit work?"

I see the Captain?"

"He's forward. Miss."

"I'm not afraid; I've been out with college boys."

"Could

from the next bunk.

there was the absent-minded professor and cut his classes.

Then

love.

who Plumber:

lectured to his steaks

"I've

come

to fix that old tub in the

kitchen."

Pa: "Ma, here's the doctor to see you."

He:

wish

I

had a

I

nickle for every girl I've

kissed.

What would you do? Buy

She: of

yourself a pack

But

kissed

and

"What are ycu thinking about, Jack?"

"The same things you are, dear."

told

Called up last night.

Mistress: Mary, eight o'clock a. m.

New maid: all

"If

we have breakfast promptly

All right,

"No,

if I

ain't

down

do,

I'll

scream!"

at

are you wearing that toothbrush for?'

"Oh, that's

don't

my

class pin.

I

went to Colgate."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Spectator.

wait.

last night."

Student:

minister?" it

you

"What

Mam,

"Tremendous crowd at our church

"New

Why? What happened?

told

that's all right

The man you

you

here at nine

o'clock.

Student:

You

You should have been

Professor:

gum?

burned down."

Prof:

A Sketch of Our College

What's that you wrote on my paper? you to write more plainly.

I told

Magazines

Continued from, Page 13

node, the literary efforts of students of all classes spring to life upon the glossy, printed pages. Here are found the true embryo authors who fashion their stories largely in the light of true incidents, giving colorful pictures of American youth in the

1940's a

permanent place in the scrap-bag Here the would-be poets set

of literature.

down for posterity their innermost feelings about every subject from pets to politics, and here the artists of tomorrow plan the "cover-girls" of the Colonnades of today.

14

The Naomi Piercy

fANCY was

finding it very difficult keep her mind on her work.

Twice already Mr. Prescott had reprimanded her for her carelessness, but her thoughts were far away. Over and over again the events of the night before ran through her mind. She had a mental vision of light curly hair, laughing blue eyes, and an engaging smile. Something about the face haunted her. It looked innocent enough and yet who could tell? He wore the uniform of the United States soldier. Was he really a spy, as she suspected? She couldn't be sure. Still there were some very suspicious things he would have to explain. She wondered whether she should report him to Mr. Prescott. But no she had no definite evidence against him. She would find out all she could about him. Then if she were convinced that he was a spy, she would report him. That would be her patriotic service to her country.

said severely, though her knees threatened

to to

The

ward

her.

soldier smiled as he sauntered to-

get in here?" Nancy away from him.

ques-

"Don't be afraid of me. I won't hurt You saw me come in, but you are not going to say anything about it, are you?"

He advanced toward her more slowly.

"Well, are you?"

"N no !" she stammered. She wondered whether he could hear her heart beating.

"Promise?" His eyes were searching her you.

—

fac^e.

"I

fuse.

p

He

promise." She was afraid to redangerous, but

didn't look very

she couldn't

tell.

"That's a good

want

me

to

this

Now,

if

is all

you really

about, meet

at that little cafe across the street in

mention

out the

girl.

know what

half an hour.

But mind you, you aren't

to

this to a soul."

Somehow he had managed to get between her and the door. She didn't remember how it happened. While she was pondering over it, the lights went out suddenly, and the room was in total darkness. She

and entered the building. Out on the street she remembered that she had left the book she wanted to soldier brushed past her

read that night; so she returned for it. In the outer office she stopped short. Someone was moving around in the other office. She heard the rustle of papers and the closing of a desk drawer. Quickly she stepped to the door and flung it open. The soldier, who was bending over the waste paper basket, straightened slowly and winked at her.

Then answering her unspoken question, he said, "I'm the new janitor here." is

job."

"How did you

Again she went over the events of the night before, analyzing each one. She had left work a little later than usual last night.

Mr. Prescott had asked her to help the new girl in the office. After that she had waited

"This

are you doing

"Now look here, honey. That's no way make a guy feel at home. I just wanted see how well you are taking care of my

tioned, backing

—

On her way

"What

her.

here?"

—

to straighten her desk.

way with

to give

to

cried out involuntarily, then quickly

moved

room. She flattened herself against the wall, hardly daring to breathe, waiting for she knew not what.

Nothing happened. There wasn't a sound in the room. Cautiously she put one foot out in front of her, then the other. She stood still and listened, then stepped forward again. Slowly, noisilessly, she made her to another part of the

no time to be joking," Nancy

Continued on Page 28

15

I Li

erican

a good sometimes

She's

and

H-S

even

heats us.

She has a wellbalanced sense of humor and she can talk

sport,

intelligently.

She has learned

to comfortably].

She's not afraid to be

dr es s

herself.

A man

can

pi

date according tc budget and coun her to fall in.

She's not helpless, but she knows when to pretend she is.

She's "stacked," and sense enough to

has

watch her

figure.

He has made sports

ei

an im-

portant

part

of

his

life,

hut

he's

when vMth

He's

a

real

not

emb a rrassed a

caught book

jitter-

bug, but he can plenty smooth.

be

He

has

appetite,

mothers

a

healthy our to feed

and like

him.

He's at home anywhere, and our fathers like to take him hunting.

He

doesn't

make an

issue of it, but he really feels protective to-

ward

us.

!

Irvcstig^tir^

lAlcrth

up

prop

THE JAMES FROM IRON GATE TO THE SEA Blair Niles, Farrar & Rinehart,

New

thes<

ous, flowing out of the past,

present, and into the future

for which the present

York,

is

through the

that future solemnly respon.

.

.

sible."

1945.

Naomi Piercy

two miles below Iron Gates, near the border of Allegheny and Botetourt counties, that Jackson River, acrid and frothy from the paper still 'T

"X

on

is

STRAIGHT DOWN A CROOKED LANE

mill at Covington, meets the Cowpasture, which comes so quietly around rolling

Martha Byrd Porter,

hills as alm.ost to seem like a pool, The two streams rather than a river sweep about a green islet, and unite; and there, more than three hundred miles from the sea, James River is born."

Thus the author begins her story of life

[TRAIGHT Down

a Crooked Lane is a witty and fascinating tale of a charming lady's ancestry, girlhood, marriage, and contributions to Richmond's civil war effort.

along the James, Which takes us back to Jamestown where we see the romantic figures. Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe. We travel up the James River from Jamestown to Petersburg and Richmond, meeting along the way such famous people as William Byrd II, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Heni^, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert E. Lee. We

lady, a Christian, an ardent Episcopalian,

Richmond,

wooded

.

.

.

cross over to Williamsburg and

the important people there.

We

It is

strict all

provocation. The gravity of the cuirent crisis could always be gauged by the sources of the quotation. For instance, when he couldn't persuade Mother that he was right, he would read "The Taming of the Shrew" before he vrent to bed that night.

Father was completely unpredictable and

meet all of see George

uttei ly

wedding finery. We accompany Governor Spotswood and his Knights of the Golden Horseshoe on their expedition to the top of the Blue Ridge. All of the old history-book characters come alive for us in

charming

;

''the

man

I

married" w'ho

refused to propose in the accepted fashion.

Aunt Emily, who would cook for everybody south of the Mason-Dixon line, except visiting Yankees was worth kno"wang too.

As a whole the book is a gay picture of life among cultured, well-to-do people in Virginia the only state in the union, to any right-thinking person whose daughters were never exposed to the University.

If you are in need of a "shadow-dispenand happy listening to ser," here it is

picturesque

story of life along the help them to fight Indians and build their homes; we ride the canal boats vdth them we share their sufferings in the War between the States and we look with them to the future, realizing, in the words of the author, that the life of a river

—

And we

;

;

is

was a

slightest

in all their

James.

Father. Mother

advocate of complete abstinence forms of alcohol. Father could quote both Shakespeare and the Bible forwards and backwards, and did so upon the

Washington, "the majestic bridegroom", and Martha Custis, "his pretty little bride",

this

well worth reading just to learn to

know Mother and and a from

Marshall Press,

Johii Virginia, 1945.

—

—

Shakespeare

"endless, its history, like itself, continu-

Evelyn Hair 18

Kit Gallops

On

Betty Deuel Cock

I IT

Kennedy wasn't the kind of girl believed in miracles. Of course

nounced and Lady MacBeth had won an-

who

other blue ribbon for her owner's collection.

The next class In the ring was a harness

she could read in the papers every day about people who are heard singing In the shower one night and singing over a national network the next night. There are always people being discovered by people high school gi-^ls who accidentally get their pictures in Life and wake up the next morning modeling for Powers or signing a movie contract sure, she believed in those things, and knew that they happened, but even in her wildest dreams she never believed that a miracle like that could ever happen to her. No, the only bits of excitement which came Kit's way were such things as missing buses in strange cities, or running into people she knew in the places she'd least expect to see them. .

.

.

.

division, and Kit and the crowd wandered off to the hot-dog stand, and from there to a tour of the stables. In front of Lady

Mac's stall they paused with the worshipful crowd of admirers and watched the glow increase as the sorrel coat was well rubbed down. The old darkey doing the rubbing was loud in his praises of "Our hoss" and Kit was loud in her expression of her great

.

.

.

There was an elderly gentleman standing to Kit's left, his eyes twinkling as if he were being highly entertained by the conversations going on about him. He noticed the glow in Kit's eyes, and he noticed, too, that long after the other spectators had

Therefore, Kit Kennedy stood at the rail

gone back to the

rail, she lingered there stroking the mare's neck and talking to her, or listening wide-eyed to the stories the old groom was telling about other shows and

paid out a good dollar for a raf-

when she knew darned well she'd never win the Horse. Then she pocketed the fle ticket

glories

stub and turned her attention back to the class of working hunters which were being judged in the ring.

she'd "give anything to ride a horse like that" the old gentleman smiled down at the

Horse Show judges never can make up minds in a hurry; so Kit had plenty of

and asked her where she lived. Kit the town, some miles away, and the old gentleman harrumphed in a pleasant tone, and smiled a little brighter. girl

named

time to look longingly at the field of horses, and to eye particularly her favorite. Lady

MacBeth, a big sorrel mare who was already well ahead in the total score of points for the hunter championship. Lady MacBeth stood third in the line-up, poised and beautiful, w'ith her head up and her coat glistening coppery in the sunlight. "Oh, just to ride that mare one time," thought Kit, as only she could do, with a good clear foot of space to spare! Kit wasn't at all

when

the judges' decision

Lady MacBeth had won. Finally, more outburst from Kit as to how

after one

thei^

surprised

.

desire to ride the champion-to-be.

as a spectator the day of the big Horse

Show and

.

"Well, my dear, perhaps after she's rested up a little from this show, Lady Mac

would be delighted to have you exercise her a bit ... if you think you can handle her.

Do you

ride at all?"

Handle her? need

expert

Why Lady MacBeth

didn't

handling!

She loved to jump .... and she went along as graciously and as eagerly as any rider Qould have Turn Page Please

was an19

THE COLONNADE less excitement and a lot more rest!

Believe me, sir, I have your interests at heart. Of course, the actual show means more to you than reading the results in the

upon

wished but this was not really happening now, was it?

"I beg your pardon, sir, but Lady MacBeth isn't owned by anyone where I live.

She's an out-of-state entry."

"Keep up with your horses pretty well, don't you, lass? Wee-Ill, what would you say if I told you that Lady Mac is spending the summer oh, say three maybe four five miles out from your own hometown?

What would you say if I added that she'll .

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

papers, but it seems to me, sir, that your family could convince you, if I can't, that your health is more important than your horses'."

"Family! Tommy-rot! What they know

.

or care about

mare

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

her winning ribbons for an owner

who

feeds

gold-fish!"

The Doctor smiled and took the

Col-

arm.

"This time. Colonel, you at least saw the whole show. You hadn't even told the folks where you were going. They decided that since your horse was gone, there must be a show somewhere, but it took 'em all day to locate you for me. Now, come on home, will you, and let the boys bring the horses? I'll even let you watch 'em draw the number for this raffle, if you wish. But then you've got to drive back with me. Fair onel's

enough?"

.

Somewhat

lovely show, wasn't it?"

unwillingly, the old

man

al-

lowed himself to be led along to the white-

have to particularly one of I

follow my patients them, anywhere he happens to go. I've driven forty miles today to tell you once and for all that this foolishness of yours has got to stop. Either you follow my orders. Colonel, or find yourself another physician. I refuse to take the responsibilities you force upon me by your persistent running after this horse of yours. Your trainers are perfectly capable of bringing home the blue ribbons, and your health depends .

happy. But dam-

die

real,

.

.

minute and

to affection,

and the loud-speaker blared on and on about a beautiful horse that was to be raffled off for a worthy cause, he turned sharply and started toward the stables.

"Colonel Taylor?" The old gentleman stopped and faced the man who had spoken. hello. Doctor! Nice show "Yes? Oh, wan't it? How could you get away from all your patients this afternoon? Heh, heh

.

in a

and being exclaimed over, with honest enthusiasm. Why, all Patricia does is to say, "She's such a pretty color, come see my Granpa, but she's so big .', and there you have the full goldfish span of her interest. Bother! I'd rather have a stroke watching the Lady gallop-on than live to be a hundred just reading about

still, but Kit stayed dazed for the rest of the afternoon.

The Gang, Inc., couldn't seem to drag her awiay from the stables back to the showring, except for the hunters' classes in which Lady Mac took trophy after trophy.

And she was standing right by the paddockmaster's elbow when her favorite cantered through the out-gate as Hunter Champion of the show. So was the old gentleman who had finally convinced Kit he was the owner of the sorrel beauty. He watched the girl with a keen look in his blue eyes; then, as the exhibitors led away their tired charges,

"It so happens. Colonel, that

horses could

mitall. Doctor, that mare's a pet! She's used

mare after all?"

Time didn't exactly stand

.

my

health or !

be needin' a bit of exercise this summer that her owner'll be too old to give her? Then do ye think you could make it over to Holly Hurdle farm a time or two and ride that

.

my

be printed for two cents Why if my granddaughter had half the interest in that mare of mine that a certain young lady here today seems to have, why I'd give her the

washed

fence, still protesting his rights. the whole stable "Doc, I'd sell 'em all full, if you'd just let me keep the Lady and show 'er till I die. God knows my youngsters don't want the animals, and I'd rather sell 'em myself to good owners than have the children dispose of them after I'm gone.

But I won't have Lady MacBeth go to just anybody! And so far as I know, nobody that I'd let have her has the price that'd .

.

.

Continued on page 27

20

!

y

yJialit

Anne Motley Second Place in Poetry Contest

The clouds

And

it is

of night close 'round

The sun has sunk from Behind the

And

my

head,

day no more. sight

hills,

all is still.

There

no soul to break the solitude of this bleak moment,

is

Save only me.

And I am a mere shadow On this windless plain where Time

No

man

mortal

stands

still.

can break the magic spell

Cast by the darkened sky and unlit plain.

My I

soul's

my own!

have no fear nor doubt that cannot be allayed by the vastness of the

Just as I

know

night.

know

1

that day will fade and night will come,

that cares will vanish

With the coming The calm,

cool fingers of the twilight

Gently press

And

I

Alone

For

solitude.

my

troubled brow.

can rest again.

I

this

stand

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

yet,

moment

is

not afraid.

mine

21

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

!

Mus

I 'ROM

a dormitory

window I watched make its way

number of the room to which Lise was assigned, and appointed myself her guide and guardian. Lt. Dorn was not long the

Elise's slender figure

around the devious turns and twists of the path that led up Eiderdown Hill from the lake. I had known for several days, that "Lise", as the girls in her

He placed his arm lightabout Lise's shoulde^-s for an instant, said in French a few words of encouragement, and left her to me.

I marshalled her up to the second story room, doing my best to cheer her in a language I had flunked twice in two previous semesters. But she caught short my vague ramblings when her eye found the two bayin his leave-taking.

ly

dorm endearingly dubbed her, was troubled.

Even the waning afternoon light did not hide either the woTied frown on her face or the discouraged droop of her shoulders.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Lise was French French from her tiny uptilted nose to her g^-aceful, slender ankles. That was about all that I o^ any of the

windows which over-looked the lake around which Appalachian University had been built. The windows were open wide to expel the musky summer odors, and Lise stood t'-ansfixed before them, drinking in the beautiful scene. "Cherie. c'est tres beau!" she breathed. She smiled then and added in hesitant English, "1 like it here, and also I like you." It was as if a door had opened, r.nd right then I knew that the happiness of this sensitive foreign girl was to become as important to me as my own.

Yet as months passed and I advised her

other girls had been able to learn about her since her arrival in late September. The^'e was a dramatic quality about that day. The girl had stepped down at Front Gate from a magnificent chauffered limousine, on the arm of an army officer, handsome enough to excite the admiration of even the most business-like upper-classman. Each of

new

us vied energetically for the simple task of carrying her light battered suitcase up the stone steps. But Elise seemed to shrink f^-om our courtesies and clung possessively to the bag with one hand and to the khakiclad arm with the other.

Yet the warmth

in the

on "c"ip" teachers, explained basket-ball on sweater hues to enhance her brunette charm, and taught her to say "Come again?" instead of "Comment?" I found that I was still no nea'-'er to knowing rules, consulted

grey eyes of Lt.

Dorn dissolved her frosty silence, and we formed an enthusiastic little circle about them as he explained about Lise.

"Lise has been in America less than a yea^," he said, "and school is bound to be strange to her at first. Take good care of

the real Elise.

Socially she

was a direct hit. Boys and were fascinated by her vivacious manner, and her ease in dancing insured popularity at all the formals and "Co-eds."

I understand why. When a college bon-fire leaped up and voices joined in a rousing cheer for "A.U.", tears glistened on Lise's dark lashes; when hot-dogs were passed around, she wrinkled her nose in pure ecstacy; and when she saw a movie it was to her a never-ending miracle. Such joy in gi'is alike

her for me, won't you?" I tore my eyes away from his magnetic features and wellgroomed dark hair to inspect our new colleague.

Lise

pression

was standing a little apart, her exwithdrawn and slightly baffled.

She reminded me of a rabbit I once found caught in the fence and dragged home unsure of everything, yet defiant. I longed to know her better and, if possible, to become her friend.

I searched out the dean, quickly obtained

living

is

contagious

Yet a part of Lise's life was somehow mysterious. It began with the letters which Continued on page 24

22

leturn

23

THE COLONNADE I

It was on Andre's seventeenth birthday that the change had come a day not very different from any other. The sky was blue and cloudless, and she and Andre had

Must Return

—

Continued from Page 22 filled her

box daily

— letters which she lock-

swung along happily down

away and never shared

with anyone. with Lt. Dorn's brief visits which always left her sad and silent. ed

And

it

—

One night I peeked across her shoulder was laboriously answering one of teased, "Who's the these letters and as she

"amour", honey? Couldn't be that heavenly Lt. Dorn, could it?" Lise's reaction amazed me. She snatched up the half-written page and lashed out angrily, "Leave me alone, please." Then she must have seen that

I

that day.

They were singing an old French air when they entered the village. Then suddenly Lise

and suddenly began to

is

so very quiet

down the narrow cobbled "Don't be a goose, Lisy," Andre admonished with the confidence of his new-

words echoed

arm around me

street.

cry.

Yet pity w;as a thing Lise would never So I waited quietly for her sobs to grow quiet, then listened without a word as she confided what had been locked so long

found years. "We must hurry or Sister Marguerite will chastise us again."

tolerate.

But Elise was noticing other

things.

The

gabled houses were tightly drawn, and even old Widow Villon was not on her front stoop as usual, flicking out her feather duster. Nor were the shoemaker's black cats anywhere in sight. A shadow of apprehension stole over Elise.

There was something terrible in the unnatural silence something electric. blinds of all the

within her heart.

Her words carried me far away from the

—

stopped short. "It

today, Andre," she said uncertainly, and her

was genuinely hurt; for for her eyes

softened, and she put her

the familiar dirt

road hands locked around a basket filled with savory home-baked bread for the noontime recess. The breeze made soft furrows across the shining shafts of golden wheat and no omen dimmed the horizon to warn them of the horror they were to witness

g-rew

dormitory room to a country I had glimpsed only remotely through books her na-

—

tive France. I tried to picture the little fish-

ing village of Saint Lo where she had been born on the stormy shores of Normandy. I saw a little girl in thick black stockings and

little

—

Then they heard a new sound

home-spun skirt, treading down a dirt road at daybreak to slide into her seat before the chimes announced that school at the convent had begun. I saw her waiting with

—

the

sound of heavy hob-nailed boots beating a harsh tattoo on the pavement. It blended in merciless rhythm with screech of sirens and clash of metal. Then a mob of blackcoated men swept down the street, filling the passage with gutteral laughter and the

eagerness at the pier for a weather-beaten old man whom she called "Poppa" to dock his skiff at night-fall. I watched her lovingly fondle a baby salamander that slipped through the course net. A lump rose in my throat as she told of a gentle, coughridden mother, too tired at the end of the day to rock away the cries of Lise's baby brother.

Of all the sweet remembered things of her home-land, I think Andre was most dear to Lise. Her eyes kindled as she described how his baby toes curled around her finger, and how his chubby hand clung to her skirt on their way to school. She had listened to his childish treble develop into a manly bass and had seen with pride that his lanky legs had out-speed her own.

ceaseless echo of their boots.

Flattened against a doorway, her body and one arm outstretched to shield the boy, Lise watched the strange parade. As one after another the hated swastikas and demon-like tanks with their smoking gunmouths passed her, the tragedy of what was happening in St. Lo seered its way into Elise's mind.

"The Convent!" Real fear gripped her as she remembered the school was without any protection from roaring guns and flashing sabers. "We must run, Andre," she said briefly. "Run as fast as we can to the school!" rigid

24

I

MUST RETURN dre from his tousled-haired slumber. "Bro-

Yet Elise's worst imaginings could not prepared her for what they found. The sequestered, ivy-covered buildings on the her own beloved classhill stood no longer room lay in a heap of smoking rubble and only the little chapel set apart had escaped the flaming destruction of the bom,bs. Outrage and bitterness flamed inside her breast as she thought of the children and her teacher stern, tight-lipped Sister Marguerite. Lise could see her now, extracting a ruler from among the straight rows of chalk boxes and papers which lined her desk and brandishing it menacingly at the "German mongrels" who dared to upset her

ther", she said,

Jiave

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Only a few stars the

of the buildings were still standing, untouched by the shells. Her Uncle Jacques' butcher shop, back of which was the lodging of her aunt and uncle, was still

standing. Elise skirted a treacherous bombcrater and approached the door. Except for

vous plait" When the first bomb burst overhead? Had the warning even come in time for even that?

the shattered window panes and glass counters all seemed unharmed. And so she gathered courage, reflecting how grand it

Fear for her safety lent wings to Elise's which housed the survivors. Here she found a shattered little group huddled around the statue of the Virgin, the older boys and girls on their knees in prayer. A little boy with red and swollen eyes ran to her and sobbed out all that had happened. One fact became real for Elise. The bomb had found its target feet as she sped to the chapel

would be

of her

into the living-room a vastly different scene confronted her. Sprawled on her aunt's soft chaise-lounge and clad in a black shirt, gaping at the waist, a fat German lay snoring. Beside him a younger cat-like officer sat with his feet resting on the potbellied stove. As she entered, he spat upon the stove and the loud hiss evoked a harsh jeer from the third occupant, an arrogant Nazi lieutenant with the most cruel eyes that Elise had ever seen. He looked up as she entered and cursed so loudly that he waked his beefy adjutant. Fortunately,

while

sobs of grief and love tore themselves from her throat. Suddenly the vi^ords of her beloved friend and counselor seemed to fill the room, "If your spirit is troubled, Elise, pray with all your might." When she arose at last from her knees, the burden had

Lise had gained a speaking knowledge of the German tongue at the convent; so she

lifted.

to be

arms

But as she passed from the shop

unbelieving.

work

in the

to return to the

cheerful

Before the still form with its immacuhood and starched blouse, stained with

to think of nothing save of the

and

mutton.

late

tried

wrapt

hungry children with choice pieces of lamb and

desk.

During the next unreal days, Elise

to be

jovial uncle

directly above Sister Marguerite's tidy little

it,

sparkled in the

many

s'il

moment

still

when she reached the village, and in light of early dawn she could see that

skies

decorum, with their polished boots and noisy pistols. Had she shouted,

Then she was on her knees beside

me your

and shirt. "Lisy, whatever are you going to do?" he asked. "I have a little errand in the village, cherie," she answered gaily, pushing her shining hair under the tiny beret, "but I shall be back in time for breakfast."

classroom

blood, Elise stood a

give

to peel off his breeches

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

'iSilence,

"Wake up and

clothes." Chagrined, but obedient, he began

stood her ground and spoke evenly, "I am the neice of Jacques Cartier, and I wish to be taken to him at once." The three guffawed loudly, and the big fellow mutter a few words to the man on the couch. He rose,

done. Real warfare had begun in Saint Lo. She must keep the convent children within

the safety of the chapel walls.

caught Elise by the collar of Andre's illfitting jacket, and jerked her toward the cellar stair. "Since you know this house so well, French cur," he bellowed, "go and

Her mind was haunted by what she should do when the meager supplies in the storeroom were gone.

Before sun-rise on the fifth day she awoke with a daring scheme. She shook An-

fetch us some wine.

And

don't be slow."

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THE COLONNADE Lise did not hesitate. She

knew

ways obeys the commands of an officer of the Reich. Do not forget that, do you hear

well the

from the wine-cellar which opened into the meat-shop above, and was bent on reaching- them and making a up

leading

stairs

me? Do you hear me, I say! Speak to me, you wretch!"

Not once during this tirade had Elise flinched or taken her eyes from the speaker's face. "Speak!" he reiterated, his anger mounting as she continued to regard him

rapid escape. Breathlessly, she reached the top and awaited her chance to run unnoticed through the half-open door.

But the greedy German was not to be so He had foreseen her plan, and placed himself with a sardonic smile, beside the door. As Elise bolted out, his muscular arms enfolded her. She struggled to free herself. Then a gasp broke from her throat as she saw from the reflection in the glass counter that her hair had been loosed from the confining beret and was beginning to cascade down about her shoulders. The

with scornful silence. Then he lurched toward her, blind fury in every line of his piglike countenance.

easily cheated.

His formidable hulk blended with the blackness which descended about her, and she knew the blessed release of unconsciousness.

odor of wine blended with the man's hot breath on her neck, and she realized that struggling was useless now.

Her

hand

rose

instinctively

to

.

.

.

Elise stopped speaking to me, as if trying to fit into place some nearly forgotten pieces of the past.

"What happened

pro-

stood the fat adjutant waving his arms and screaming "The American forces have

America.

pushed her away, his small mustache quivering nervously as he shouted "Sound the

fat

concentrate at

my

she said simply. "He alone happened that day in the village. He choked that German with his bare hands. I'll never be able to repay him never ^for his kindness to me.

"Oh, cherie, I love him so very much!

Such gay times we had together in New York while I was convalescing. I was al-

rungs with sharp bruising his post by the window. She felt the warm blood gush from the wound on her breast, and her head ached so violently that it was difficult to

The

me

found

When I mentioned the Lieutenant, the dark spell was instantly broken. "Lt. Dorn

and bound

to the wicker

knots.

later

refugee ship bound for

way?"

:

alarm!" into a chair

few weeks

all

the arrogant Lieutentant.

was pushed

A

—a

"But, darling," I said, deeply moved by she had suffered, "that's all over now.

You mustn't ever relive those moments, even in your mind. Your future here with us is the thing that counts. And that divine Lt. Dorn. Where did you find him, any-

They are marching

Elise had a wild impulse to laugh as he

Elise

voice, "is that I

and antiseptic. aboard a ship

—

Alarm shook

urged

I

away

landed in Normandy. now to Saint Lo!"

I

can remember," she said in a far awoke between clean white sheets in a little room smelling clean "All

—

the rosary around her neck Sister Marguerite's gift, and she uttered a prayer for strength.

Suddenly her captor turned. Behind him

tect

Lise?"

then,

her to go on.

saved

German took up

life,"

knows what

—

—

all.

The bestial Nazi left to guard her seemed disgruntled. His cowardly nature made him glad enough to be left out of the fierce hand-to-hand battle which raged in the street, but this task of minding a mere girl was distasteful. "At least she might talk and keep me from growing bored," he told

really

ways happy

after

seemed to love me, can't

—

."

I

met

Philip.

And

he

—

Yet I mustn't Her tone was almost desperate. too.

"But why, Elise? Why haven't you every right to love him?" I asked.

"It's difficult for you to understand cherie.

You Americans with your high spirits, your roofless automobiles, and your hot-dogs." She smiled a little, but then the

himself.

Not so smart after all, were you, Frenchy?" he taunted. "Next time you'll fetch that wine the way I tell you. One al26

I

sdme defiant look

1

MUST RETURN must teach French children to be must carry on for the sake of the youth of Saint Lo and the France that is to be. I must return, cherie."

had noticed the day she

came, came into her eyes.

"But I cannot remain America, even for Philip.

France.

your glorious

in

must return

I

to

Kit Gallops And

A man

cap caught the Colonel by the arm, and touched his cap. congratulations, sir, "Colonel Taylor on the championship. The judges are wondering if you'd draw the number for the raffle. We're nearly ready, sir. Just come out to the center of the ring."

"E:^cuse me. Doctor, I'll be glad to drive home with you immediately after drawing this number!", he remarked, and with dignity in his slow steps, he stalked away toward the improvised judges' stand.

"You're to understand, ladies and gentlemen," blared the loudspeaker, "that the holder of the lucky number must be present within a few minutes' time, or we will draw another number. All right, Colonel bring out one Taylor, into the hat you go number thank you sir, and the lucky 11052. Mr. Horace Jenkins is number is the lucky man.

"He's gone home 'bout an hour ago!" shouted a bystander. ".

As we said, ladies and gentlemen, since Mr. Jenkins has gone home and forfeited his chance to claim this horse, we'll ask Colonel Taylor to draw another num.

.

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ber

.

.

.

nasty pile-up on a fox-hunt so

.

"I say, sir"

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.

.

.

.

.

to please

draw the

beautiful

five-gaited

.

.

number for this black gelding, while she's waiting for her own horse to be brought into the ring Right this way, final

.

Miss Kennedy

.

.

.

.

.

just bring out one

and hand

ber, please,

it

num-

to the judges."

Kit didn't quite understand, but she stuck a trembling hand down among the raffle tickets, and she scarcely heard the digits as the loud-speaker called them off

and a man came forward to claim his horse.

The crowd lingered in amazement, but Kit was the most amazed of all. Coming across the ring, her muscles rippling under the plaid blanket, her head high and her ears up, Lady MacBeth towered above her trainer. The Colonel was watching Kit closely.

The doctor was watching the Colonel.

squealed and grabbed hold of the nearest elbow which happened to belong to the man next to her. Then with a mad scramble, she was over the white-washed fence and halfway across the ring. Colonel Taylor saw Kit coming Katherine Kennedy she was about the age of his grand-daughter Patricia. About the age he himself had been when his father gave him his first one of the best. About the age of horse .

.

has won. We're giving two horses, one a hunter and one a five-gaited horse. This young lady has won the hunter and so we will ask her. Miss Katherine Kennedy,

..."

.

at the speaker."

.

Kit Kennedy wasn't the kind of girl who believed in miracles, but the number on her stub read correctly after all, and she

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said the colonel to the

"Er Ladies and Gentlemen thore a^e two horses being raffled off this afternoon, and this is not the one this young lady

please

.

.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, hold everything.

There's been a grave mistake."

.

.

.

some fast whispering and

"Dammitall," said the Colonel, "Tell the

man

.

.

.

did

ment.

.

thank you, number 2-1-319

years

the judges stared at each other in amaze-

step forward and claim this beautiful five-

gaited

He

judges.

.

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many

before.

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the girl with whom he had first fallen in love ... the girl who had been killed in a

that's that!"

in a black velvet

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strong.

Kit turned to the Colonel and gasped "But, sir that's Lady Mac." "She'll need the exercise still, this summer, lass but, he winked at his doctor, "I'm sure her owner is not too old to give it to her!" .

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THE COLONNADE

The Spy Continued from Page 15

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"Oh, no!" Miss Pillar cried hastily, appearing very nervous. Nancy wondered what could be the reason for her nervousness. She was determined to find out.

way

to the door. She was all alone. Giving a sigh of relief, she hurried out into the street. She had no intention of going to the little cafe. Her only desire was to get as far away from there as possible.

Now Nancy

They left the office together then Nancy turned back on the pretext of having left something. She hurried into the office and went straight to Miss Pillar's waste basket where she picked up the paper with the lipstick on it and looked it over carefully. She ;

began to wonder whether

she should have gone to the cafe. It was foolish to keep the promise she had made him, for she was sure he had no legitimate business there. But when she thought of those eyes looking at her, she knew she couldn't tell.

recognized several statements from the papers on her desk. Miss Pillar was not supposed to know anything about them.

Nancy put the pieces together. The soldier had been looking in the waste basket. This paper had been left for him. It would be very dangerous, if it should get into the wrong hands. She tore the paper into tiny pieces and burned them in the ash tray on

Would know why

the day never end? She didn't she was so anxious to get out of the office. Miss Pillar, the new girl, had been very trying on her nerves today. She had come to her again and again, asking for help with her work. While she explained.

Miss Pillar didn't seem to be listening at all.

She kept her eyes fixed on some papers lying on the desk, and once when she Walked away, she brushed against the papers, sending them scattering all over the floor. When she stooped to gather them up, Nancy noticed that she looked at each one carefully, as if to be sure they were in the right order.

Mr. Prescott's desk.

Out on the street once more, Nancy drew her coat closely about her, for it had turned much colder, and a biting wind was cutting through her. As she hurried down the street, she heard footsteps close behind her.

A hand touched her arm, and she looked up into the face of the soldier. Her heart skipped a beat, then raced on.

"You

didn't

come

last night,"

he accused

Nancy managed

to answer.

reprovingly.

in a terrible humWhat if she had missed a few words when he called her into his office for dictation? She was just thinking how she

Mr. Prescott had been

"I couldn't,"

or today.

"Now me?"

might bring up the subject of the strange visitor of the night before. He didn't have to storm at her. In all fairness to Mr. Prescott, though, it was unusual for him to be in a bad humor.

At

want a kleenex?" Nancy

"Don't you asked.

you're not still afraid of he questioned. "Come on.. Let's go in look!

here and get a bite to eat." Before she had time to answer, he had guided her into the little restaurant. It was a quiet place with only a few people. They sat down at a table for two in a secluded corner. For two hours they talked and ate. Nancy never knew the time to pass so quickly. Without even telling her his name, the soldier entertained her with stories and anecdotes of his adventures until she began to feel that she had known him all her life. In the back of her mind she was troubled with many questions about him, but she couldn't bring her-

hands of her watch pointed She gathered her papers together and carried them to the safe, and locked it carefully. She went back to tidyup her desk. Miss Pillar was applying her lipstick. She picked up a sheet of paper and blotted her lips, dropping the paper last the

to five o'clock.

into the wastebasket.

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THE COLONNADE them. She was sorry when he looked at his watch and told her they must

self to ask

do owe you some explanation.

Bob spoke her name softly. "You see, some very valuable information was leaking out of this office. I used to work as a private detective as a byline. So I promised Dad to see what I could "I guess Miss Elder

They didn't talk much on the way home, when they got to her door, Nancy said, "You didn't tell me what you were doing in

go.

l)ut

the office last night." His smile lit up his whole face. Nancy looked away. "No, don't

find out.

I traced it to the janitor, but I couldn't find out where he got his informa-

me," she almost whispered.

tell

I

— Nancy."

on.

I found part of it before you walked on me. Then last night I saw you burn some paper, and I thought you were trying to destroy the evidence against you. Of course, w*hen I found the lipstick didn't match, I knew it was Miss Pillar ," he b" oke off.

Nancy was crying, uncontrollably. He took her into his arms, trying to console her, but she pushed him away.

The next day Miss Pillar didn't come to work. Nancy was glad, yet curious.

"Why, what's wrong?" he asked, as she continued to cry.

His arms were around her. Nancy clung to him, her face buried against his coat.

tion.

She

in

could feel his heart beating. He lifted her face upward and kissed her gently, reverently. Without a word he released her and walked down the steps. She saw him stop

—

under a street light and rub his handkerchief against his lips, look at it, and walk

Mr. Prescott looked at her curiously

"I hate you.

I

hate you!"

Nancy

cried

when he came in, and suddenly she wanted to cry. She knew that she ought to tell him

between sobs. Slov/ly

about the soldier, but she couldn't. All moaning she fought back the tears. Just before her lunch hour Mr. Prescott came up to her desk. "Miss Elder, I'd like for you to meet my son Bob."

you? Wouldn't it be all right if I kissed you now because I want to because I love you?"

She smiled up at him through her tears.

Nancy looked up

it

came

to him.

"Oh, Nancy!" he whispered. "Does really

mean

so

much

to

—

into the face of the sol-

She could only stare.

"Your son!" she finally managed. Mr. Prescott seemed not to notice her concern and went on into his office. dier.

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